To access the Rest API in Cherwell is pretty straight forward, unless like me you are an engineer that users powershell… So here is may way to explain it as an engineer. First you need to understand how the Rest API works and how to configure Cherwell so you can access it. Continue reading…

This is a powershell function to enable you to login to Cherwell using the Rest API with transparent windows authentication (the credentials you are running the powershell session with). But there is some work you need to do first.

When I save a document as a PDF from Word, the fonts change, in some cases, quite badly. You will see posts about embedding fonts to fix it etc, but what I found was, there is another reason. Continue reading…

In an enterprise environment you may have machines that lots of different people log into. In my case there were a few PCs, that over 300 people had logged into, in the last two years.

This caused an issue with SCCM as it gathered information out of these profiles to update the devices inventory and the MIF file size was over the maximum, so was never loaded and put into the BADMIFS folder on the SCCM server.

Get a random password function in powershell, it gets a random password of specified length containing numbers, uppercase letters, # lowercase letters and special characters. Minimum length required is 4 characters # since password must contain all four types of characters. Continue reading…